Fata Morgana ii

In a time of restricted access, staycations, the Lake District National Park in the NW of England has been the recipient of many physical visits, virtual and imaginary, it is both an objective and subjective landscape, for many it has been a landscape of memory, imagination. This project combines the objective: a factual b&w photograph overlaid with the subjective: a Lakeland landscape painting harking back to Pictoralism, with a digital modern take on an Arcadian aesthetic. Fata Morgana is an imagined, idealised landscape, both of the sky and of the and, imagined both by its continued presence & yet in its absence, the body and the mind, a mirage which many people have been imagining in this time of restricted access & hardship. Landscape and memory: many hundreds of thousands have craved the open spaces, one such mountain & lake location scene viewed from a fourth floor window, reimagined for the 21st century.